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Go direct to new description including Windows 10
Windows 7/8 or 7PE is needed to make Boot Manager Menu.
BOOT_USB - Make Bootable USB-Drives
Booting with Grub4dos Menu and using Boot Image files
Download - BOOT_USB - mirror
In Win7 OS Set User Account Control Off and Reboot
Run the SFX SelfExtractor BOOT_USB.exe and Extract to simple path.
In this way you will get on your Local Harddisk the folder BOOT_USB from which you can launch 2 Programs:
- BOOT_USB.exe - Make USB-Drives booting with Grub4dos Menu and using Boot Image files
- USB_Part_Flip.exe - Change which primary partition of USB-stick is visible in Windows
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Features of BOOT_USB.exe
- Format USB-stick e.g. NTFS with FAT32 2nd partition
- Make Grub4dos Menu on USB for booting Boot Image files (types IMG or ISO or VHD) e.g. Portable Windows XP and Windows 7
- Make BootManager Menu on USB-drives for booting Win7 VHD Boot Image files (requires Win7 or 7PE as OS)
- Copy Source folder e.g. BOOT_USBMULTI to USB Target Drive
- Copy Bootable USB-drives (from drive to drive) by using Exclude list makebtExclude_Copy_USB.txt
- Change MBR Bootcode of USB-disks - Select Grub4dos (preferred) Or Standard Windows XP MBR BootCode
- On NON USB-drives Make Grub4dos Menu for booting Boot Image files (types IMG or ISO)
- Add in BootManager Menu of Windows 7 - to Start Grub4dos Or to Start XP
Make Grub4dos Boot Menu on Harddisk or USB-drive for Boot Image files e.g.
- BartPE / UBCD4Win / LiveXP - IMG or ISO files booting from RAMDISK
- Parted Magic - Acronis - LiveXP_RAM - CD - ISO File - http://partedmagic.com/
- Superfloppy Image files e.g. boot 15 MB FreeDOS or 25 MB MS-DOS Superfloppy images
- XP Recovery Console Image RECONS.img booting from RAMDISK - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=21883
- 7pe_x86_E.iso - Portable Windows 7 PE booting from RAMDISK - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23931
- XP-1.img - XP Image file booting as FILEDISK or RAMDISK using WinVBlock or FiraDisk driver
- Win7-1.vhd - Win7 VHD file booting with VHD HBA driver Or as FILEDISK and as RAMDISK using WinVBlock or FiraDisk driver
Boot Portable Windows XP Or Portable Windows 7 from Grub4dos Menu on USB-drive
Also part of IMG_XP package - More Info - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23553
IMG_XP_Create.exe - Use button NEW for direct Install of XP in Boot Image file by using WinVBlock driver
IMG_XP_Compact.exe and VHD_W7_Compact.exe can be used to make Portable Windows XP and Win7 VHD Image files
More info USB_Part_Flip.exe - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=24392
Install of XP or Windows 7 from USB After Booting with 7 PE and
by using WinNTSetup2_x86.exe and Setup ISO file in Virtual drive
0. Use BOOT_USB.exe to prepare USB or HDD drive for booting with Grub4dos Menu and using 7 PE Boot Image file
- Info BOOT_USB - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=24424
- Info Make_PE3 - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23931
1. Boot from USB or HDD with 7 PE loaded in RAMDISK - use Grub4dos Boot Menu and 7pe_x86_E.iso Boot Image file
2. Use R-mouse to Mount Windows Setup ISO in ImDisk virtual drive
- If needed first Install ImDisk driver by running imdiskinst.exe (also available in makebt folder)
3. Quick Format TargetDrive - use NTFS FileSystem
4. Run WinNTSetup2_x86.exe and prepare Target drive for Install of XP or Windows 7
Thanks to JFX - http://www.msfn.org/...-winntsetup-v2/
5. Reboot from Target Drive and Install XP or Windows 7
Instead of 7 PE you can use any other way of booting that allows you to Format and prepare your Target Drive.
You might decide e.g. to boot with Portable Windows XP IMG or with Windows 7 VHD from USB
In any case you can use WinNTSetup2_x86.exe to prepare your Target drive for Install of XP or Windows 7
See Tutorial file XP-W7-Setup.txt in IMG_XPHelp_Info folder
Info IMG_XP - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23553
Download - IMG_XP
The advantage is that you never boot from USB during XP Setup
and that makes everything much more reliable and you have full control of what you are doing.
Also using a single XP Setup ISO file mounted in ImDisk Virtual drive is much more reliable
than having a bunch of XP Setup files on USB.
Transfer of the ISO file to USB is much faster and easier to maintain.
Instead of USB-stick it is much better to use Portable 2.5 inch USB-harddisk e.g. Samsung S2
As easy to carry and connect, but much higher speed and more capacity.
How to prepare XP Setup Source ? - Prepare XP Setup ISO file with integrated UpdatePack and DriverPacks
Take care that your XPSOURCE Folder is located on your Harddisk in a simple Path without SPACES.
Copy the Content of your Windows XP Setup CD to your XPSOURCE Folder on Harddisk
First Integrate ServicePack SP3 in your XP-SP2 Source (don't use here nLite).
Download from - http://www.microsoft...i...ng=en&id=24
In Command Window use for English version and XPSOURCE folder on drive E:
WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe /integrate:E:XPSOURCE
Siginet's RyanVM Integrator 1.6 can then be used to Integrate Windows UpdatePacks in the XP-Source.
Download preferred version RVM Integrator 1.6.1 Beta 2.1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?ynajonymmnz
Windows XP UpdatePacks and Addons:
Work according to Section 2 in - http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=21883
For Install of XP on a modern system with SATA Drives it is needed to use DPsBase.exe
for Integrating in your XPSOURCE DriverPack Massstorage with TXT Mode Enabled.
In that case a lot of Extra RAID SCSI and SATA Drivers (about 120 extra) are Integrated which appear in the
XP Setup BootFolder $WIN_NT$.~BT on Install-Drive and can prevent a lot of XP Install Boot Problems.
Use DPsBase.exe to Integrate DriverPacks Chipset + Processor + MassStorage + LAN + WLAN DriverPacks
which will then be located in OEM Folder in your XPSOURCE folder
Always first use RyanVM Integrator and then use DPsBase to Improve your XP-Source
DPsBase makes presetup.cmd in folder I386 and changes the I386winnt.sif file for use of DriverPacks
presetup.cmd in folder I386 will start decompression of DriverPacks located in OEM folder
at the beginning of GUI-mode of XP Setup, which does NOT take to much time for the 5 DriverPacks
You should select to Keep The Drivers for Chipset + Processor + MassStorage + LAN
Then WINDOWSDriverPacks is about 135 MB which is acceptable and provides a lot of extra driver support
which is useful to make XP Universal and adapt easily to very different hardware.
In that case the DevicePath is set accordingly in key
so that XP can automatically make use of these drivers for adjusting to New Hardware
When you don't use nLite, you can copy the supplied $OEM$ folder to your XP Source folder
Change $OEM$ folder to your needs for UserAccounts and Registry Tweaks and Adding Drivers
CMDLINES.TXT is used for making UserAccounts and install of Registry Tweaks at T-12
Info see: http://unattended.ms.../unattended.xp/
Use DriverForge.v4.5.4.exe to Install from C:Drivers at T-9 of GUI XP Setup (just for the last Reboot).
DriverForge.v4.5.4.exe was made by kickarse http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=110783
At end of TXT-mode XP Setup the folder $OEM$$1Drivers is copied to C:Drivers
and $OEM$$1InstallDriverForge.v4.5.4.exe is copied to C:Install
For Auto Use of DriverForge at T-9 add uncompressed driver folders in $OEM$$1Drivers
and Uncomment two rules by removing ; in winnt.sif file copied from winnt_sif to your I386 folder
This is very useful for Install of your well known Audio and Video driver during GUI-mode of XP Setup.
[SetupParams] UserExecute = "%SystemDrive%INSTALLSetupPar.cmd"
PnP Drivers specified in winnt.sif can be added to $OEM$$1Drivers
TEXTMODE Drivers defined in winnt.sif and located in $OEM$TEXTMODE folder of the XP Source
can be used instead of using F6 floppy for MassStorage Drivers.
The content of the $OEM$TEXTMODE folder is copied to XP Setup BootFolder $WIN_NT$.~BT$OEM$
See cdob and allanf in http://www.boot-land...?...5306&st=180
Smart Driver Backup 2.12 of Jaque is very useful to Backup your drivers before install of XP
How to make XP Setup ISO File ?
- Use BBIE (see below) or Isobuster to Extract Boot Image bootsect.bin from Original bootable XP Setup CD
bbie will make image1.bin that you can copy as bootsect.bin to XP Setup source folder
- Reduce Size of XP Setup Source folder (if needed to fit on CD then remove folders LANG WIN9XMIG WIN9XUPG)
- Use ImgBurn and bootsect.bin to make Bootable CD
In detail:
1. Remove 3 folders LANG WIN9XMIG WIN9XUPG - reduction in size = 135 MB
2. Run ImgBurn - Portable Tool in PStart Menu - IMG_XPMULTIPStartProgsImgBurn
- Select Write files/folders to disc
- Output - Select Image File
- Browse Source folder and Select your XP Setup Source folder
- Browse Destination file - Give Name e.g. XP-Setup.iso
- Labels ISO 9660 - Give Name e.g. XP-Setup
- Advanced Restrictions - ISO9660 - Select Level X and DOS CharSet with 4x Checkbox On (allow ...)
- Bootable Disc - Make Image bootable - Checkbox On - Browse Boot Image - Select bootsect.bin file
- Bootable Disc - Emulation Type = None
Load Segment = 07C0
Sectors to Load = 4
BOOT_USBmakebt>bbie M:XP3_1201.iso
BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor v1.0, © 2001, Bart Lagerweij
will make BOOT_USBmakebtimage1.bin that you can rename as bootsect.bin
Format Stick using BOOT_USB.exe
An AutoIt3 Routine was created to Format USB-sticks with a Harddisk like structure and NTFS/FAT32/FAT FileSystem.
- First 100 Sectors of USB-stick are erased quickly using dsfi.exe and file Erase_100.bin
- MBR BootCode is obtained from XP file dmadmin.exe just as in MBRBatch.cmd made by jaclaz
- Partition Table entry is constructed from the USB-stick CHS geometry as derived from MBRWiz.exe /list
- Partition is ending on Cylinder boundary to improve bootability as compared to HP Format Tool, which would give a CHS-LBA unbalanced partition.
- CHS Knockout Patches and Dummy Second Partition are user selectable options to improve USB-stick bootability
CHS Knockout Patches can be applied to XP-MBR BootCode (HP Patch)
and to FAT32 or NTFS BootSector to improve bootability as described by Clemens Fruhwirth and tested by cdob to be useful.
- Apply HP Patch to USB-stick XP-MBR Code for CHS Knock-out
Change at offset 0xCA 3 bytes - 0xB8 0x01 0x02 --> patched to 0xEB 0x1A 0x90
- Apply 4x NOP Patch to FAT32 and NTFS BootSector for CHS Knock-out
FAT32 boot sector ("MSDOS5.0" found at offset 0x03) :
Change at offset 0xE6 - 4 bytes - 0x0F 0x82 0x4A 0x00 --> patched to 0x90 0x90 0x90 0x90
NTFS boot sector ("NTFS" found at offset 0x03) :
Change at offset 0xD9 - 4 bytes - 0x0F 0x82 0x3A 0x00 --> patched to 0x90 0x90 0x90 0x90
USB-sticks with Dummy Second Partition of about 8 MB (using 1 Cyl in case of n/255/63 geometry)
can be generated to further improve bootability as described by online
The Format Stick routine was further improved for FAT and FAT32 FileSystem,
by patching after Format two important bytes which determine bootability of USB-stick.
- MBR - Reset FAT FileSystem byte = 0E (LBA) at offset 0x1C2 in MBR, after format it was 06 (CHS) and not bootable
- FAT BootSector - drive-id patch 0x80 at offset 0x24 , after format it was 00 and Not bootable
- MBR - Reset FAT32 FileSystem byte = 0C (LBA) at offset 0x1C2 in MBR, after format it was 0B (CHS) and Not bootable
- FAT32 Bootsector - drive-id patch 0x80 at offset 0x40 , after format it was 00 and Not bootable
FAT and FAT32 USB-stick are NOT bootable without patching these two critical bytes, and flashing cursor or Disk Error would be the result.
The problem is that Windows OS all the time tries to reset these bytes to NON-bootable value.
But this problem was overcome in the present procedure.


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|Section 9, Row T, Seats 1 and 2 at Walter Brown
the place where I saw my first hockey game
|The Garden, fitting I ended high school hockey career
on the same bench Jack Parker did
|Tsongas Arena, my first road game (2001)
|Matthews Arena (2002)
|BU played at DCU in 2002, '03, '05, and '06 in the NCAA
|Conte Forum, Boston College (2003)
|Schneider Arena, Providence. First Time I went was in 2003 in
the Hockey East Quarterfinals.
|Agganis Arena opened it's doors in January of 2005, I was
at Opening Night, a 2-1 win over Minnesota. This is the view
from my season tickets in second 114
|Bright Center, Harvard. (2006). Harvard is one of two rinks
on this list that I have actually played a hockey game on.
The other is Boston Garden
|Lawler Rink, Merrimack (2007)
|Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester NH (2009 NCAA Regionals)
|Verizon Center, Washington DC (2009 Frozen Four). My first
and only Frozen Four.
|Mullins Center, UMass (2010)
|Madison Square Garden, New York City.
Been here for three of the four Red Hot Hockey
games with Cornell, the first of which I saw in
November 2009.
|Scott Trade Center, St. Louis, Missouri (Icebreaker 2011)
|Gutterson Field-House, Vermont (2012)
|Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota (2012 West Regional)
|The Wittemore Center, New Hampshire (2013)
|Yost Ice Arena, Michigan (2014)
|Munn Arena, Michigan State (2014)
|Alfond Arena, Maine (2014)

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Antiochian Couple Receives Award for 80 Years of Marriage
A Connecticut couple, lifetime members of the Antiochian Archdiocese, have been named the longest married couple for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian group based in San Bernardino, CA. John (101 years) and Ann (97 years) Betar shared their story with the Hearst Connecticut Media group: how they eloped and married in New York when Ann's father arranged for her to marry another man, and how they subsequently sustained their long and happy marriage.
John and Ann had already celebrated their 80th anniversary at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, in Bridgeport, CT on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Additionally, the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Group presented them with a plaque and other gifts at their granddaughter's home in Fairfield on Saturday, February 9, 2013.
A photo gallery of the couple, along with the news post, can be found here.


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Celebrate with Cassandra Clare when she comes to Wellesley for the release of City of Heavenly Fire, the thrilling conclusion to her The Mortal Instruments series, on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Best-selling author Jodi Picoult lead a discussion with Cassandra at the Wellesley Middle School at an exclusive evening of audience Q&A, trivia, book signing, and much more.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets are $30 and include a signed, hardcover copy of City of Heavenly Fire to be picked up at the door. Doors will open at 6:15pm. Parking and directions information to come.
Tickets are available online at the link…
Signing Line Rules:
Cassandra Clare: Three book limit. Cassandra will sign and personalize copies of City of Heavenly Fire. She will sign (but not personalize) additional titles. No posed photos permitted. Pre-signed copies of her books will be available for sale at the event.
Jodi Picoult: Three book limit.
Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series, the Infernal Devices trilogy, and the Bane Chronicles. Her books have more than 30 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts. Visit her at CassandraClare.com. Learn more about the world of the Shadowhunters at Shadowhunters.com.
Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian—but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance…Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world will change. Who will survive the explosive sixth and final installment of the Mortal Instruments series?
Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of twenty-one novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association's Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com.
What happens when happily ever after…isn't? Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He's a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He's sure there's more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom. Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
All professional education content courses leading to certification shall include teaching and assessment of the Wisconsin Content Standards in the content area.
In this column, list the Wisconsin Content Standards that are included in this course. The Standards for each content area are found in the Wisconsin Content Standards document.
In this column, indicate the nature of the performance assessments used in this course to evaluate student proficiency in each standard.
The structures within the discipline, the historical roots and evolving nature of mathematics, and the interaction between technology and the discipline.
Classroom discussions on the evolution of the notion of 'number' and the underlying axioms of algebra.
Facilitating the building of student conceptual and procedural understanding.
In class discussions combined with homework assignments deal with both the procedural as well as the conceptual nature of algebra.
Helping all students build understanding of the discipline including:
. Confidence in their abilities to utilize mathematical knowledge.
. Awareness of the usefulness of mathematics.
. The economic implications of fine mathematical preparation.
Applications of ideas from abstract algebra are illustrated. Assignments are used to assess the students' knowledge of these applications.
Exploring, conjecturing, examining and testing all aspects of problem solving.
Various problem solving strategies are applied in the classroom discussions.
Formulating and posing worthwhile mathematical tasks, solving problems using several strategies, evaluating results, generalizing solutions, using problem solving approaches effectively, and applying mathematical modeling to real-world situations.
The students are expected to be able to see how to formulate clear axioms for the various abstract number systems. The students' ability to do this is then assessed on an exam.
Making convincing mathematical arguments, framing mathematical questions and conjectures, formulating counter-examples, constructing and evaluating arguments, and using intuitive, informal exploration and formal proof.
Students are asked on exams to construct proofs using the direct, indirect, contradiction, and induction methods. They are also expected to be able to know when and how to produce counter-examples.
Expressing ideas orally, in writing, and visually-, using mathematical language, notation, and symbolism; translating mathematical ideas between and among contexts.
Students are expected to participate in classroom discussions on the topics and then write solutions to the exercises using correct mathematical language.
Connecting the concepts and procedures of mathematics, drawing connections between mathematical strands, between mathematics and other disciplines, and with daily life.
The connections between ideas in abstract algebra and 6-12 algebra is discussed. The students are expected to be able to describe these connections in classroom discussions.
Selecting appropriate representations to facilitate mathematical problem solving and translating between and among representations to explicate problem-solving situations.
On the assignments, the students are expected to work with various representations of the abstract number systems. One example is using symmetry to help illustrate the notion of a group.
Mathematical processes including:
. Problem solving.
. Communication.
. Reasoning and formal and informal argument.
. Mathematical connections.
. Representations.
. Technology.
Each exam and homework assignment is used to assess the students' ability to communicate mathematically.
Number operations and relationships from both abstract and concrete perspectives identifying real world applications, and representing and connecting mathematical concepts and procedures including:
. Number sense.
. Set theory.
. Number and operation.
. Composition and decomposition of numbers, including place value, primes, factors, multiples, inverses, and the extension of these concepts throughout mathematics.
. Number systems through the real numbers, their properties and relations.
. Computational procedures.
. Proportional reasoning.
. Number theory.
On the assignments, students are expected to illustrate their ability to work with various concrete number systems and then show that they can abstract the key properties of each system.
Mathematical concepts and procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level number operations and relationships including:
. Advanced counting procedures, including union and intersection of sets, and parenthetical operations.
. Algebraic and transcendental numbers.
. The complex number system, including polar coordinates.
. Approximation techniques as a basis for numerical integration, fractals, and numerical-based proofs.
. Situations in which numerical arguments presented in a variety of classroom and real-world situations (e.g., political, economic, scientific, social) can be created and critically evaluated.
. Opportunities in which acceptable limits of error can be assessed (e.g., evaluating strategies, testing the reasonableness of results, and using technology to carry out computations).
Students work on assignments involving operations with the rational, real and complex number systems. The students' ability with these operations are also assessed on the exams.
Geometry and measurement from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and mathematical concepts, procedures and connections among them including:
. Formal and informal argument.
. Names, properties, and relationships of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
. Spatial sense.
. Spatial reasoning and the use of geometric models to represent, visualize, and solve problems.
. Transformations and the ways in which rotation, reflection, and translation of shapes can illustrate concepts, properties, and relationships.
. Coordinate geometry systems including relations between coordinate and synthetic geometry, and generalizing geometric principles from a two-dimensional system to a three-dimensional system.
. Concepts of measurement, including measurable attributes, standard and non-standard units, precision and accuracy, and use of appropriate tools.
. The structure of systems of measurement, including the development and use of measurement systems and the relationships among different systems. Measurement including length, area, volume, size of angles, weight and mass, time, temperature, and money.
. Measuring, estimating, and using measurement to describe and compare geometric phenomena.
. Indirect measurement and its uses, including developing formulas and procedures for determining measure to solve problems.
Students are expected to be able to illustrate the connection between the ideas of symmetry from geometry and the idea of group from algebra. They are tested on this ability.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level geometry and measurement including:
. Systems of geometry, including Euclidean, non-Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, and projective geometry.
. Transformations, coordinates, and vectors and their use in problem solving. Three-dimensional geometry and its generalization to other dimensions. Topology, including topological properties and transformations.
. Opportunities to present convincing arguments by means of demonstration, informal proof, counter-examples, or other logical means to show the truth of statements and/or generalizations.
Not assessed in this course
Statistics and probability from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections between them including:
. Use of data to explore real-world issues.
. The process of investigation including formulation of a problem, designing a data collection plan, and collecting, recording, and organizing data.
. Data representation through graphs, tables, and summary statistics to describe data distributions, central tendency, and variance.
. Analysis and interpretation of data.
. Randomness, sampling, and inference.
. Probability as a way to describe chances or risk in simple and compound events.
. Outcome prediction based on experimentation or theoretical probabilities.
Not assessed in this course.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level statistics and probability including:
. Use of the random variable in the generation and interpretation of probability distributions.
. Descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of disbursement, including validity and reliability, and correlation.
. Probability theory and its link to inferential statistics.
. Discrete and continuous probability distributions as bases for inference.
. Situations in which students can analyze, evaluate, and critique the methods and conclusions of statistical experiments reported in journals, magazines, news media, advertising, etc.
Not assessed in this course.
Functions, algebra, and basic concepts underlying calculus from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Patterns.
. Functions as used to describe relations and to model real world situations.
. Representations of situations that involve variable quantities with expressions, equations and inequalities and that include algebraic and geometric relationships.
. Multiple representations of relations, the strengths and limitations of each representation, and conversion from one representation to another.
. Attributes of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, algebraic, and exponential functions.
. Operations on expressions and solution of equations, systems of equations and inequalities using concrete, informal, and formal methods.
. Underlying concepts of calculus, including rate of change, limits, and approximations for irregular areas.
Not assessed in this course.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level functions, algebra, and concepts of calculus including:
. Concepts of calculus, including limits (epsilon-delta) and tangents, derivatives, integrals, and sequences and series.
. Modeling to solve problems.
. Calculus techniques including finding limits, derivatives, integrals, and using special rules.
. Calculus applications including modeling, optimization, velocity and acceleration, area, volume, and center of mass.
. Numerical and approximation techniques including Simpson's rule, trapezoidal rule, Newton's Approximation, and linearization.
. Multivariate calculus.
. Differential equations.
Not assessed in this course.
Discrete processes from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Counting techniques.
. Representation and analysis of discrete mathematics problems using sequences, graph theory, arrays, and networks.
. Iteration and recursion.
Not assessed in this course.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level discrete mathematics including:
. Topics, including symbolic logic, induction, linear programming, and finite graphs.
. Matrices as a mathematical system, and matrices and matrix operations as tools for recording information and for solving problems.
. Developing and analyzing algorithms.
The students' ability to produce proofs, work with matrix rings, and the notion of isomorphism are all topics that are tested in this course and related in classroom discussions to the subject of discrete mathematics.


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EXCLUSIVE! R-Patz Is So Hilarious That He Could Be A Stand-Up Comic, Says 'Remember Me' Co-Star
Don't let the serious façade fool you — according to his onscreen BFF Tate Ellington, Rob Pattinson is a barrel of laughs!
When you think Robert Pattinson, you think of his dark and brooding Twilight Saga character, Edward Cullen. You don't think: 'Hey, R-Patz could totes be the next Russell Brand.' But guess what? According to his Remember Me co-star Tate Ellington, Rob has all the makings of a seriously hilarious stand-up comic!
"He'd be a great [comedic actor]," the star, who played Rob's BFF Aidan Hall in the film, which is released on DVD today, June 22, told HollywoodLife.com exclusively during a phone chat June 21. "He would say these great and wonderful things that make you go 'What?' He would just crack you up the whole time. All the time, on set, he was always smiling. I think he's hilarious. He could do straight-up comedy."
In fact, Robert, 24, was SUCH a jokester that Tate thought his pal was kidding when he got hit by a cab for real while filming in NYC. The actor was at lunch when he one of the Remember Me producers got a text reading, 'Rob has just been hit by a cab.' "We were in the middle of soup thinking, 'Oh God, what are we going to do?' Tate recalls. "But it turned out that he was great, he's fine – thank God! We were all terrified for a good half hour, but he did show back up [on set]. It felt like a practical joke, but it turned out to be real."
Also real was the British hunk's chemistry with leading lady Emile de Ravin. But although they were close on-set and off, Tate says that they were NOT dating (good news for all you K-Stew fans!).
"They pretty much laughed off [the hook-up rumors]," Tate tells us. "There was one day where Emile kept on getting texts about it and she was just all like 'Oh, good lord!' Their chemistry on and off was great. They definitely worked a lot and took it seriously to do a good job at presenting themselves as a couple."
Tate is still close to both his co-stars. "I shot Emile a message the other day after the Lost finale. I was like 'Thanks a lot for making me cry, you were great.'" He added, "I'll shoot [Rob] a message every now and then when big events are coming up. When New Moon was coming out, I shot him a message saying, 'Hang in there, best of luck, hope things won't get too nuts.'"
Good luck with that, Tate. Do you KNOW how crazy Rob's life is about to get when the Twilight Saga: Eclipse premieres June 30?


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An area with extensive agricultural use in western Russia is pictured in this image from Japan's ALOS satellite, with roads and rivers cutting through the cropland.
This area is about 400 km directly south of Moscow. Many grains are grown here, such as winter wheat and rye.
The area is part of Russia's Black Earth Region, a strip of land across multiple regions that is known for its black soil called chernozem. This fertile soil produces a high agricultural yield.
The Black Earth Region is part of a greater Eurasian chernozem belt, which cuts across parts of Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and into Siberia. There is a similar belt of black soil in the Canadian Prairies.
The terrain can also be found in small quantities elsewhere and is the most fertile soil on Earth.
This image is a compilation of three passes by the Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite's radar on 14 June 2009, 14 September 2009 and 2 August 2010.
Each image at the different recording date is assigned a colour (red, green or blue) and combined to produce this representation. The colours reveal changes in the surface between the satellite's passes.
Satellites can not only detect surface changes, but can also be used for plant identification and for yield prediction.
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It is UAB policy that research will include additional safeguards to protect the rights and welfare of subjects when some or all of the subjects involved in research are prisoners. Prisoner is defined as any individual involuntarily confined or detained in a penal institution. The definition is intended to encompass individuals sentenced to such an institution under a criminal or civil statute, individuals detained in other facilities by virtue of statutes or commitment procedures, which provide alternatives to criminal prosecution or incarceration in a penal institution, and individuals detained pending arraignment, trial, or sentencing. This definition includes any individual who enrolls in a research study and then becomes a prisoner while in the study. All research involving prisoners, regardless of funding source, will receive review and approval under 45 CFR Part 46, Subpart C before research is initiated. (See PRO133 Procedure for Review when Prisoners are Involved as Participants in Research.)
The IRB will determine that the agency receives advanced written assurance that non-employees of the bureau may receive records in a form not individually identifiable and that the records will be used solely for statistical research or reporting.
When the IRB reviews research involving prisoners, in addition to other IRB composition requirements, the majority of the IRB (exclusive of prisoner members) will have no association with the prison(s) involved apart from their membership on the IRB and at least one voting member will be a prisoner, or a prisoner representative with appropriate background and experience to serve in that capacity. Where a particular research project is reviewed by more than one IRB, only one IRB needs to satisfy this requirement. Research involving prisoners will not undergo review using expedited procedures.
In addition to its other prescribed responsibilities, the IRB will review research involving prisoners and approve such research only if it finds and documents the following criteria under 45 CFR 46.305 (or criteria for a waiver for epidemiologic research) are met:
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When research involving prisoners is conducted or sponsored by HHS, the IRB will certify to the Secretary, through OHRP, that it has reviewed and approved the research by finding that each element of the above criteria has been met. Research will not be permitted until OHRP, on behalf of the Secretary, determines that the research satisfies one of the permissible research categories under 45 CFR §46.306(a)(2) or meets the federal waiver provisions for epidemiologic research involving prisoners (see Attachment A).
Investigators are responsible for providing the IRB with necessary and sufficient information to make the above determinations. When a previously enrolled research subject becomes a prisoner and the relevant research protocol was not reviewed and approved in accordance with 45 CFR Part 46, Subpart C, the principal investigator will:
The IRB will promptly review any research protocol in accordance with 45 CFR 46, Subpart C on receipt of notification that a previously enrolled subject has become a prisoner and the principal investigator asserts continued participation in the research is in the subject's best interest. The IRB will remind the principal investigator to cease research activities with the subject, unless special circumstances exist, until the protocol is reviewed in accordance with 45 CFR Part 46, Subpart C.
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Categories of Research That May Involve Prisoners under 45 CFR 46.306 and Waiver for Epidemiologic Research (68 FR 36929)
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Categories of Research That May Involve Prisoners under 45 CFR 46.306 and Waiver for Epidemiologic Research (68 FR 36929)
Minimal risk is the probability and magnitude of physical or psychological harm that is normally encountered in the daily lives, or in the routine medical, dental, or psychological examination of healthy persons.
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Love & Letters of Insurgents
From Fifth Estate – by Artnoose
a review of Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vocheck, as told by Fredy Perlman, with a new introduction by Aragorn!. Left Bank Books, 2014, 722pp., $20 leftbankbooks.bigcartel.com
In 1976, Fredy and Lorraine Perlman and other people at the Detroit Printing Co-op published Letters of Insurgents, which at more than 800 pages qualifies as a hefty novel. Although Perlman wrote the book, he didn't include his name on the cover, instead attributing it to Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vochek, the two main characters whose letters make up the text.
The book, reprinted by Seattle's Left Bank Books, keeps the original Black and Red cover design intact, with the exception of adding Perlman's name. It has been out of print for several years. The cover photo montage was done by the Fifth Estate's Millard Berry.
Sophia and Yarostan met as teens in the 1950s at a carton factory in an unnamed Eastern Bloc country. They had a brief love affair and participated in an uprising that ended in fellow workers being sent to jail.
Sophia and her family quickly emigrated, and more than twenty years later she sends the first of the letters that make up this book, only to find out in Yarostan's reply letter that he had spent a lengthy time in prison as a result of the strike. The subsequent nine pairs of exchanged letters unfold the mystery surrounding the pair's divergent fates after the strike as well as their current lives in revolt. (more…)


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If you don't find an advertised game that appeals to you right away, have patience. New games are listed all the time. While you wait, you can check out the online rules documents for the types of games you want to play (if they have them). For instance, if you want to play Dungeons & Dragons, check out the SRDs (System Reference Documents) and do some reading. Or if you are interested in trying Pathfinder, visit here or here.
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One major star confirms their Iron Man 3 casting, while another bows out. Leonard Nimoy plays coy about the Star Trek sequel. American Horror Story adds a seriously awesome actor, and a bunch of British acting heavyweights join Angelina Jolie's Maleficent!
Spoilers from here on out!
Top image from Prometheus.
The Avengers 2
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige lays out the groundwork all the upcoming sequels will do to set up the pretty much financially guaranteed Avengers sequel:
If we do an Avengers 2 it will be after [Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2]. They have to grow, they have to change. What they've gone through in this movie will impact their state of mind and where they stand in their next movies. Then whatever they go through in those movies is going to affect where we meet them in the next Avengers film. But I think people will be surprised to see, as we go forward — particularly in Iron Man 3 — the notion of how singular the stories can become. Iron Man 3 is a very singular Tony Stark story. As is Thor 2. Cap, who is stuck in the modern day with no friends or family, there will be some revelations of who is still alive from his days in WWII, but SHIELD and Nick Fury are kind of his confidants right now. So of all these movies, Captain America 2 will be most closely associated with Avengers.
There's also the matter of Thanos, who was introduced in the Avengers post-credits scene. The current rumor seems to be that he could be crucial to the planned Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but you've got to assume he would show up in the Avengers sequel. Kevin Feige credits Joss Whedon for coming up with the idea of including Thanos, and Whedon explains what appeals to him about the character:
He for me is the most powerful and fascinating Marvel villain. He's the great grand daddy of the badasses and he's in love with death and I just think that's so cute. For me, the greatest Avengers was THE AVENGERS annual that Jim Starlin did followed by THE THING 2 in 1 that contained the death of Adam Warlock. Those were some of the most important texts and I think underrated milestones in Marvel history and Thanos is all over that, so somebody had to be in control and had to be behind Loki's work and I was like "It's got to be Thanos." And they said "Okay" and I'm like "Oh my God!"
There's much more on the decision at the link. [/Film]
Also, this is a long, long way off, but there's a rumor that the movie's huge response in India will lead to some of the sequel being filmed in the world's second most populous country. Specifically, the rumor is that three locations would be used - Hardwar and Uttar Pradesh in North India and another location in Maharashtra. [Comic Book Movie]
Iron Man 3
Gandhi actor Ben Kingsley confirms that it is now "official" that he will be in the third Iron Man movie, and that he will turn his attentions to his undisclosed role once he's done filming Ender's Game. [Huffington Post]
In other casting news, the omnipresent Jessica Chastain — whose credits include Tree of Life, The Help, Take Shelter, and about thirty other movies made last year — has just become slightly less omnipresent, as it turns out she won't be playing a "sexy scientist" in the third Iron Man movie. She posted to her Facebook the following explanation:
Sorry to say that 'Iron Man' 3 isn't going to work out. My schedule is jammed packed and I can't fit anything else in. The press announced my possible attachment far too soon. I know many of you wanted me to be involved, and I'm so sorry to disappoint you. Hopefully there'll be another Marvel film in my future. Shane Black and everyone on the IM3 team are really wonderful. I'm very excited to see the film when it comes out. xx
The Amazing Spider-Man
Here are some photos from various viral sites, including a Parker family photo and a look at Peter Parker's class schedule. [First Showing]
Star Trek 2
Leonard Nimoy is being fairly cagey on Twitter about whether he actually will appear in the Star Trek sequel, basically suggesting that any potential cameo is still just a maybe at this point. [/Film]
It's all but official that Prometheus will be released with an R-rating, reportedly for "sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language." Considering how much harder it is for R-rated movies to be financial successes compared to their PG-13 counterparts, I'd say 20th Century Fox deserves some major credit for staying true to their word that they wouldn't compromise the movie in search of a more box office friendly rating. [Collider]
Meanwhile, here's a promo photo of Michael Fassbender as the android David. [Shock Till You Drop]
Vin Diesel has posted another photo from the third Riddick movie, complete with accompanying commentary:
"A still from the Riddick set this year. We are in post and I can't tell you how excited I am to see it manifest. You all were such a part of it becoming a reality... willed it into being, so to speak... Filming Fast this summer is going to be incredible, haha... Thank you again for the opportunity to make magic."
Here's how Game of Thrones star Lena Headey describes her role as Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal:
"She's a prostitute who then kills her pimp and takes over his drug-running business. And Ma-Ma is a bit of a man-hater. I think of her like an old great white shark who is just waiting for someone bigger and stronger to show up and kill her. She's ready for it. In fact, she can't wait for it to happen. And yet no one can get the job done. She's an addict, so she's dead in that way, but that last knock just hasn't come. This big, fat, scarred shark moving through the sea and everyone flees and she's like, 'Will someone just have the balls to do it? Please?'"
Beetlejuice 2
Seth Grahame-Smith says he won't be devoting his full attention to this until he's finished his Night of the Living script for Tim Burton, then adapted his new book Unholy Night and completed his publicity duties for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. [Coming Soon]
Joining Angelina Jolie, Super 8's Elle Fanning, and District 9's Sharlto Copley in this revisionist take on the Sleep Beauty story are a bunch of great British thespians, including Vera Drake's Imelda Staunton and Blackadder's Miranda Richardson (they were also both in the Harry Potter movies, but I'm trying to be ever so vaguely highbrow here). Here's a breakdown of the casting additions:
Staunton and Another Year's Lesley Manville are playing Knotgrass and Flittle, respectively, two of the three pixies who end up taking care of Aurora. (They were fairies in the original tales.) Richardson will play Queen Ulla, a fairy queen who is Maleficent's aunt — and dislikes her niece. Hot Fuzz's Kenneth Cranham will play the human king who plots to conquer the fairy kingdom. Brighton Rock's Sam Riley takes the role of Diaval, a raven who changes into human form and is Maleficent's right hand.
Kick-Ass 2
Comics artist John Romita, Jr. suggests a sequel is really happening, and in the surprisingly near future. He reportedly said the deals are in place and filming could happen as soon as this summer for a May 2013 release. That doesn't really seem to fit with what everyone else has been saying, and it also would call Hit-Girl actress Chloe Moretz's availability into question, as she will be busy shooting the Carrie reboot. So...might want to take this one with a grain of salt for now. [/Film]
The Walking Dead
Comics creator Robert Kirkman talks about which specific elements from the comics will show up in the third season:
We're a big fan of the SWAT gear here at The Walking Dead writer's room... maybe that's an indication that we'll be seeing that stuff in the show. It's important to us to maintain the tone of the show. Thus far [the characters] have been out on the road, desperate and living in the heat, and we don't want it to be that they're relaxing in this safe place now.
With the evil Governor in the picture, does that mean the humans are the bigger threat this season?
The plan was always to evolve naturally into a place were the zombies essentially become a manageable threat. You know the rules. You know how to deal with them. To a certain extent they become something to not really be scared of unless you mess up. Humans, however, do not follow any rules and will always do something that surprises you and are capable of doing things far worse than trying to eat you...We're definitely going to be seeing a lot of horrible things.
He also discusses Treme actress Danai Gurira's training to play the sword-wielding Michonne:
There's been quite a bit of sword training going on and [Danai] is doing an amazing job. She's going to be do all of the hard character stuff and drama that The Walking Dead is known for, but she has tremendous physical capability and the sword training that I've seen is absolutely amazing. I can't wait to see her hack up some zombies.
Q: Can you tell us anything about the sword she's using?
A: She's using a sword that we specially designed for the show...The origins of the sword will be revealed on the show.
Here's a promo for the next episode, "Say Hello to My Little Friend."
Person of the Interest
Here's the official description for the May 17 season finale, "Firewall", which guest stars genre favorite Amy Acker:
Amy Acker ("Angel," "Cabin in the Woods") Guest Stars As the Psychologist and POI
"Firewall" – When a psychologist's number comes up, Reese must protect her from one of her patients while eluding capture by the FBI, who are closing in fast. Meanwhile, Finch receives an unwelcome visit from an old acquaintance, on the first season finale of PERSON OF INTEREST, Thursday, May 17 (9:00 – 10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Amy Acker ("Angel," "Cabin in the Woods") guest stars as the POI.
Once Upon a Time
Here's a promo for the season finale, "A Land Without Magic", which airs on Mother's Day (which is this Sunday, in case you needed a friendly reminder.)
And here are some promo photos. [TV Line]
Finally, the plot description for the episode, which features a whole bunch of returning guest stars including Jamie Dornan as Sheriff Graham's fairy tale alter ego the Huntsman:
Jamie Dornan Guest Stars as Huntsman; Emilie de Ravin ("Lost") Guest Stars as Belle; Kristin Bauer ("True Blood") Guest Stars as Maleficent; Sebastian Stan ("Gossip Girl," "Captain America: The First Avenger") Guest Stars as Jefferson
"A Land Without Magic" – Emma and Regina team together in order to find a way to save Henry's life. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Prince Charming attempts to escape from the Evil Queen's clutches in order to reunite with Snow White who, unbeknownst to him, has already taken a bite of the Queen's poison apple, on "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, MAY 13 (8:00-9:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Here's a promo for the next episode, "Music of the Spheres."
Here's a sneak peek for this Friday's episode, "There Will Be Blood."
American Horror Story
The great James Cromwell, whose credits include everything from Star Trek: First Contact to Babe to L.A. Confidential (and that's just 1995 to 1997), has been cast as Dr. Arden, part of the staff at this season's all new setting, a mental institution for the criminally insane. While commenting on the news, series creator Ryan Murphy revealed that there definitely won't be any links back to the first season, as "the second season is set in a completely different time period." Presumably, that means sometime in the past, although I don't think we can even remotely rule out this being a mental institution in the 22nd century or whatever else. [The Live Feed]
Here's a promo and two sneak peeks for the Canadian time travel series starring Star Trek supporting player Rachel Nichols.
Teen Wolf
Here's a trailer for season two. MTV says five million views will unlock a preview of the first ten minutes of the new season - as of this writing, they're only 4,928,564 away!
Additional reporting by Ben Vrignon and Charlie Jane Anders.


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Topic: Exempt Authenticated Users from RBL Checks
I have users, in a few of my hosted domains, that travel regularly and or primarily. These users use aircards, wifi hotspots, and other public internet access. From time to time, these users are not allowed to send mail through my iredmail server, even though they are authenticated, due to the barracuda RBL check that I have configured in the main.cf in my postfix config.
My question is; is there a way to omit authenticated users from RBL checks ?
I can provide versions and a copy of my main.cf if necessary.
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Each year, satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe compiles their best aerial shots of natural disasters, political issues, natural wonders and current events.
Twenty of these top shots were posted to Facebook where viewers selected their five favorites. An overall winner will be announced in January.
Click on to see the top five, including this Feb. 16 image of Croatia's "Island of Love," as well as 15 runners-up.
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"Wish," a large-scale art work in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Nov. 3, 2013.
A view of the Colorado River in Utah, April 22, 2013.
The Citadel of Aleppo – a medieval fortified palace in Aleppo, Syria, May 26, 2013.
Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy, Feb. 19 2013.
Cuanza River, Angola, April 28, 2013.
The site of the 2014 winter Olympic, Sochi, Russia, March 17, 2013.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, April 22, 2013.
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The Arlit Uranium Mine, Niger, Feb. 13, 2013.
Shiyuan Park in Xian, China, Sept. 24, 2013.
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A massive "green tide" near the city of Sur, Oman, Feb. 13, 2013.
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Stephen Ira Cohen (born May 24, 1949) is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 9th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Tennessee's 9th district includes almost three-fourths of Memphis. Cohen is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman.
Cohen was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 24, 1949 to pediatrician Morris D. Cohen and his wife Genevieve. He has two older brothers, Michael Corey and Martin D. Cohen. He is a fourth-generation Memphian, and is the grandson of a Jewish newsstand owner who immigrated from Lithuania. Cohen contracted polio when he was five, and the disease caused him to shift his attention from sports to politics at an early age. When Cohen was eleven, John F. Kennedy made a campaign stop in Memphis, and Cohen took a picture of Kennedy sitting on a convertible. Cohen describes Kennedy as his political hero; the picture still hangs in his office. In 1961, Cohen's family moved to Coral Gables, Florida where his father received a fellowship in psychiatry at the University of Miami. From 1964 to 1966, the Cohen family resided in Pasadena, California where Dr. Cohen had a fellowship in child psychiatry at the University of Southern California. Cohen, who attended Polytechnic School, returned to Florida in 1966 to graduate from Coral Gables High School before returning to Memphis where his father established his private psychiatry practice.


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Blame it on Howard.
Or Chunky Monkey, Alphy, Grizzly and Pumpkin.
It's all their fault that Jeff Haynie ended up with all those empty cat food cans and nothing to do with them.
Being a person who believes in "re-purposing" things, it always bugged him to be tossing those cans, even in the recycle bin.
"It was the cats," Haynie said. "They kept looking at me when I was throwing those cans away."
What resulted is his own brand of art, appropriately called Kitty Kans. Meant to be something that can be hung on the wall, each Kat Kan has its own personality, complete with a hand-painted face, sculpted ears, wire whiskers and jeweled collar.
And it's only one of the many cat-inspired art works that Haynie does.
Haynie, a Bainbridge Island resident, has been an artist for more than 30 years. He began his creative adventures while studying art at East Texas State University. He grew up in Baton Rouge, La., and attended Louisiana Tech University before moving to Texas. It was there that he met and married his wife, Sherri.
"As a kid, I spent a lot of time fishing in warm rivers of the South for bass, bream and catfish," he said.
"As I would wade down the river fishing, the water and glistening highlights on the river bottom instilled in me a desire to depict dramatic light in my paintings. At school recess, I would find a tree to sit under and draw spaceships and creatures while all my classmates were playing on the playground."
Later, he worked with airbrush techniques and began combining his own art with illustration.
Following college, Haynie opened Green Acres Studio, a full-service illustration studio, and produced illustrations for a wide variety of clients including American Airlines, Disney, Warner Brothers, Texas Instruments, Bell Helicopter, Frito-Lay, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, IBM, Focus on the Family, Xerox, Bic Pens and Mead paper. His work appeared in everything from airlines magazines, to "point to purchase" displays in grocery stores, to folders that students used to put their school papers in.
During this time, he also taught illustration classes at the University of North Texas. It was there that one of his students introduced him to art via the computer.
"I was very resistant," he said. "I was a traditional artist and didn't think that doing art on the computer was real art."
The friend soon upgraded his computer and gave Haynie the old one.
"I knew it was the way of the future and that I had to learn it," Haynie said. "So I started playing around and began to see that the art was the same because the creation came from the artist, whether it was on a computer or not."
In 1997, he left Texas and went to work for DreamWorks SKG in Los Angeles.
"Steven Spielberg's movies and stories had been an early inspiration for me, so the idea of being able to work for him was a dream come true and an incredible opportunity," Haynie said. "As I was exposed to the ideas of entertainment design, motion graphics, visual storytelling, concept development, art direction for interactive game development, my paintings took a brand new direction."
For the next dozen years, he directed as well as produced art for video games, including "Medal of Honor," "Small Soldiers," "Need for Speed," "Evil Dead," "Clive Barker's Undying" and "Vegas," for companies such as DreamWorks Interactive, Electronic Arts, THQ and Midway (now Warner Brothers).
Eventually he went to work for Big Fish Games, directing the Mystery Case Files series. His first full project as art director was Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst.
"Creating art for these type of games is like creating an interactive novel where story, artwork, game design and cinematography all comes together to make a storybook experience," he said. "The idea of moving the camera around the environment in the tradition of the old 'point-and-click' adventure games like "Myst" was exciting. It was a big commercial success."
It was while working for Big Fish that he moved from Los Angeles to Seattle where Big Fish had an office.
He and his wife were finally able to buy their first home in Kent, a 1921 Craftsman which they restored.
In 2010, they went looking for a place to live that was home to other artists and they found Bainbridge Island.
"It was a perfect place because I could commute to Seattle and it had lots of galleries and places to get to know the art community," he said.
During the day, he worked on games, and at night, he came home and work on his personal paintings, most of which were of whimsical cats and fish.
"The fish were with me from my early days in Louisiana," he said. "The cats were a different matter."
As his wife tells, Jeff was never a cat person. In fact, when they were first married they had dogs and she wanted a cat. It took several attempts by her sister and then, finally in 1996, they added Miss Joshua to their family.
"The first night, she curled up with Jeff and that was it," said Sherri. "She was his kitty after that."
Miss Joshua was the first cat that Haynie painted. From his experiences painting fantasy characters, came his whimsical cats.
In 2011, he opened Fin and Fur Studio and last year, Haynie retired from his "professional" career, to work at home in his studio drawing and painting cats, fish and whatever else he wants.
His Kitty Kans are just one of his many lines. To that he has added jewelry (that he calls wearable art), plus posters, cards, bookmarks and ornaments.
His most recent items are cat cut-outs that he calls Purr Pals. Painted on 1/4-inch-thick wood, the cut-out cat faces attach to the corner of frames, the tops of computer screens and other items.
His work has been selected to be shown in the Best of the Northwest Arts and Fine Crafts Show March 29-30 in Seattle. He shows in local galleries and is on the Bainbridge Island Studio Tours.
Whether it's a wall painting or a piece of jewelry, each are handcrafted and one-of-a-kind, Haynie said.
It's been a long 30-plus years, Haynie said, to get to the place where he's spending his days creating from the stories that are his and his alone.
"The world of illustrating for others, whether it was Looney Tunes for a store display or working on games for DreamWorks, was a good life," he said. "But to have the time to be able to get all my ideas out and share them with others — that's my dream come true."
From his journey comes a few simple words of wisdom.
"Believe in yourself," he said. "My goal in my work is to encourage others to be themselves because they are the only 'they' that will ever be. There isn't anybody like you. Just build on that."
And, if perhaps a cat enters the picture, let it cross your path.


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While cloud enthusiasts roaming the halls of McCormick Place convention hall in Chicago last week at Cloud Connect may be high on the market, the reality is that many enterprises IT shops are still reticent to fully embrace public cloud computing.
Network World asked some of the best and brightest minds in the industry who were at the event about what's holding the cloud industry back. Here's what they said:
[MORE CLOUD:How the cloud is blowing up the network]
The organizationEric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research Group
Cloud sounds like a great idea, but how will it really work when it's adopted? Hanselman says one of the biggest barriers is an organizational one. Typically IT organizations are split into groups focusing on compute, network and storage. When applications run from the cloud, those are all managed from one provider. That means the jobs from each of those groups within IT may change. How can organizations evolve? "You've got to converge," Hansleman says. That could be easier said than done with people's jobs at stake.
Security and application integrationKrishnan Subramanian, director of OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat; founder of Rishidot Research
Security is still the biggest concern that enterprises point to with the cloud. Is that justified? Cloud providers spend a lot of money and resources to keep their services secure, but Subramanian says it's almost an instinctual reaction that IT pros be concerned about cloud security. "Part of that is lack of education" he says. Vendors could be more forthcoming with the architecture of their cloud platforms and the security around it. But doing so isn't an easy decision for IaaS providers: Vendors don't want to give away the trade secrets of how their cloud is run, yet they need to provide enough detail to assuage enterprise concerns.
Once IT shops get beyond the perceived security risks, integrating the cloud with legacy systems is their biggest technical challenge, Subramanian says. It's still just not worth it for organizations to completely rewrite their applications to run them in the cloud. Companies have on-premises options for managing their IT resources and there just isn't a compelling enough reason yet to migrate them to the cloud. Perhaps new applications and initiatives will be born in the cloud, but that presents challenges around the connections between the premises and the cloud, and related latency issues.
New apps for a new computing modelRandy Bias, CTO of OpenStack company Cloudscaling
If you're using cloud computing to deliver legacy enterprise applications, you're doing it wrong, Bias says. Cloud computing is fundamentally a paradigm shift, similar to the progression from mainframes to client-server computing. Organizations shouldn't run their traditional client-server apps in this cloud world. "Cloud is about net new apps that deliver new business value," he says. "That's what Amazon has driven, and that's the power of the cloud." Organizations need to be forward thinking enough and willing to embrace these new applications that are fueled by big data and distributed systems to produce analytics-based decision making and agile computing environment.
It's more than just technologyBernard Golden, VP of Enterprise Solutions for Enstratius, a Dell company
The biggest inhibitor to more prevalent cloud computing adoption is that organizations are still holding on to their legacy processes, says Golden, who recently authored the Amazon Web Services for Dummies book. It's not just about being willing to use new big data apps, and spin up virtual machines quickly. It's the new skill sets for employees, technical challenges around integrating an outsourced environment with the current platform, and building a relationship with a new vendor. "For people to go beyond just a small tweak, there needs to be a significant transformation in many areas of the organization," he says. "Each time there is a platform shift, established mechanisms are forced to evolve."
Regulatory complianceAndy Knosp, VP of Product for open source private cloud platform Eucalyptus
One of the biggest hurdles for broader adoption of public cloud computing resources continues to be the regulatory and compliance issues that customers need to overcome, Knosp says. Even if providers are accredited to handle sensitive financial, health or other types of information, there is "still enough doubt" by executives in many of these industries about using public cloud resources. Many organizations, therefore, have started with low-risk, less mission critical workloads being deployed to the public cloud. Knosp says the comfort level for using cloud resources for more mission critical workloads will grow. It will just take time.
Senior Writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing for Network World and NetworkWorld.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW. Read his Cloud Chronicles here.


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Milky Way Ice Cream
Our children don't have a lunch program at their school. So, once a month, another lady and I volunteer to cook a hot meal for all 150 students. And, since the teachers don't have a break in their schedules, twice a month we also make lunch for them—and sometimes prepare Milky Way Ice Cream for dessert! Every family has its traditions. We serve homemade ice cream for birthdays. I'm constantly looking for new recipes—that's how I found this one.
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + chilling Process: 20 min./batch + freezing
Makesabout 3 quarts
- 16 ounces Milky Way candy bars
- 1 quart heavy whipping cream, divided
- 4 large eggs
- 6 cups cold whole milk
- 1 package (3.9 ounces) instant chocolate fudge pudding mix
- 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
- In a large saucepan, melt candy bars with 2 cups cream. Beat eggs and remaining cream. Whisk into chocolate mixture. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture reaches at least 160° and coats the back of a metal spoon. Remove from the heat.
- Cool quickly by placing pan in a bowl of ice water; stir for 2 minutes. In a bowl, whisk milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Fold into chocolate mixture. Press plastic wrap onto surface of custard. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Fill cylinder of ice cream freezer two-thirds full; freeze according to the manufacturer's directions.
- Refrigerate remaining mixture until ready to freeze. When ice cream is frozen, transfer to a freezer container; freeze for 2-4 hours before serving.


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MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell.
An example would be building a library that uses the autotools build system. Users will typically run "./configure" then "make" to build it. The configure shell script requires a shell script interpreter which is not present on Windows systems, but provided by MSYS.


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Snap: When ski slopes melt... and nearly burn
Massanutten Resort, near Harrisonburg, may have closed its ski season in late March, but a few slivers of snow lingered on until at least 2pm on Thursday, April 15, as seen in this image by pilot/photographer Skip Degan. A few miles to the north, in the George Washington National Forest, the plume from a prescribed burn rears its head. Meanwhile, Massanutten is fighting a lawsuit filed last month over an allegedly paralyss-causng 2009 accident that occurred on its sledding hill.
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Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power
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In his first major work since "The Seat of the Soul," Zukav introduces a profound new relationship dynamic which enables and empowers individuals to reach their true potential and discover what Zukav calls authentic power. Brief Description: In his first major book since the legendary bestseller The Seat of the...
In his first major work since "The Seat of the Soul," Zukav introduces a profound new relationship dynamic which enables and empowers individuals to reach their true potential and discover what Zukav calls authentic power.
Brief Description:
In his first major book since the legendary bestseller The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav reveals a revolutionary new path for spiritual growth. What began with an introduction to a major paradigm shift in The Dancing Wu Li Masters turned into a discussion of aligning our personalities with our soul in The Seat of the Soul; finally, in Spiritual Partnership, Zukav guides the reader on this practical path to authentic power.
This book is about our new relationships. A new and surprising world is emerging that requires each of us to explore the sources of our love and cultivate them and the inner sources of all that prevents us from loving (our fears) and heal them. Our evolution has taken a new path, and our relationships are changing in unexpected and dramatic ways.
We are evolving beyond the limits of our five senses and encountering more expanded experiences of ourselves and our world than were previously possible. Where once our perception was confined to what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell, we are now increasingly able to access data that these senses cannot detect. This expanded perception is forever altering our experiences of ourselves, our world, and our relationships.
Our evolution now presents us at each moment with a profound choice: we can pretend that our lives and the world are not changing and continue to relate to one another as before, or we can use our relationships to transform ourselves into authentically powerful, loving individuals.
In Spiritual Partnership, bestselling author Gary Zukav reveals a profound new relationship dynamic that enables us to reach our full potential and create authentic power--the fulfilling and joyful life that is calling to us all. Spiritual partnerships are not only for couples in marriage; they can be created anywhere two or more individuals decide to engage as equals for the purpose of spiritual development.
Filled with poignant examples and practical guidance, including specific guidelines, Spiritual Partnership empowers and enables us to explore our emotions, our intentions, our choices, and our intuition and to use them to create profound spiritual growth. The world is changing around us and within us, and Spiritual Partnership is the road map to that change.
Contributor Bio: Zukav, Gary
Gary Zukav is the author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers. In 1979, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics plumbed the depths of quantum physics and relativity, winning the American Book Award for science. In 1989, The Seat of the Soul led the way to seeing the alignment of the personality and the soul as the fulfillment of life and captured the imagination of millions, becoming the number one New York Times bestseller thirty-one times and remaining on the bestseller list for three years. Zukav's gentle presence, humor, and wisdom have endeared him to millions of viewers through his many appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Six million copies of his books are in print and translations have been published in twenty-four languages. Zukav grew up in the Midwest, graduated from Harvard, and became a Special Forces (Green Beret) officer with Vietnam service before writing his first book.
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Transport business and legislation
Maximising uptime, productivity and profit – it comes from a thorough understanding of your business and industry. And the role the driver plays in improving your company´s productivity.
Our transport business and legislation course gives you the insider knowledge you need. It offers a fresh perspective on your role as a professional driver and ways to make legislations like driving time and rest periods work in your favour. So get ready to bring even more value to your company.
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- Helps create a positive image of your company and drivers
- Increases knowledge of the transport industry and its conditions
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- Produces a better driving situation with less stress.
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The Venn diagram in kindergarten? Yes! Venn diagrams can be used effectively by our youngest students. The trick is to make them user-friendly, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate as a tool even kindergarten students can use with ease. Guide students toward an understanding of the Venn diagram by letting them physically manipulate hoola hoops. Begin with two hoops and two colors of blass, with one ball containing both colors. With the hoops side by side, have students to help you sort the balls, with one color in each hoop. Allow students to problem-solve to figure out what to do with the bi-colored ball, prompting them by physically overlapping the hoola hoops if needed. help students label the Venn diagram using index cards, and explore other ways it can be used. In other sessions, students can sort shapes, animals, and other objects.
Interactive Venn Diagram: Use this online tool during prewriting to organize ideas for a compare and contrast essay.
As Phyllis and David Whitin tell us in their Math is Language Too, "Writing and talking are ways that learners can make their mathematical thinking visible. Both writing and talking are tools for collaboration, discovery, and reflection. For instance, talking is fluid; it allows for a quick interchange of ideas; learners can modify, elaborate and generate ideas in a free-wheeling manner. Talking also allows for the quick brainstorming of many possible ideas, thereby giving the group many directions to consider. It is this rough-draft' talk that allows peers and teachers a window into each other's thinking" (2). As they sort objects into unions and sets in this lesson plan, students make their thinking visible through similar "rough-draft" talk. By thinking aloud about their choices in this lesson, students are invited to be storytellers as they explore the connections between mathematics and language.
Further Reading
Whitin, Phyllis, and David Whitin. 2000. Math Is Language Too: Talking and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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Supper clubbing: Chefs show off on night out
Recently, Dish had the opportunity to check out the sixth installment of the Cville Supper Club's monthly food and wine extravaganza.
Great, but– um– what's the Cville Supper Club?
That would be the brain(s)child of several Charlottesville restaurateurs who wanted to get together on their nights off to "eat good food, drink good wine, and have a little fun."
In short order, that casual idea turned into a managed monthly event (the supper club meets every 3rd Monday of the month) that involved building a website, networking with other restaurants, planning five-course meals, contacting wine distributors, and creating in the process a charity event. Don't misunderstand: the Supper Club is still in its infancy, but it's an idea that offers local food and wine lovers something unique.
Actually, supper clubs are nothing new. They originally appeared across the Midwest in the 1930s and 1940s. Supper clubbers all showed up at once for a prix-fixe dinner served in a formal setting, usually with some theme. Gradually, the space became a club where everybody danced and drank the night away. It was usually cheaper than dining out alone, and unlike a traditional night out– where a couple or group sits alone– the atmosphere of the supper club encouraged folks to meet their neighbors, to talk about the wine or the food, to turn the night into an event.
"Every month there's a different chef, a different menu, a different wine distributor, and a different charity," says John Siver, one of the Supper Club's founders and a managing partner at Fellini's #9. Siver, along with Fellini's #9 head chef, Adam Beckel, and owner Jaclynn Dunkle, started the club about seven months ago.
"It gives the chefs a chance to show what they can do, to do things they might not be able to do at their restaurants," says the fast-talking Siver. "And it's a great way for people to network," he adds.
On the night Dish attended, Gravity Lounge was the venue, Fellini's Chris Humphry was the chef du nuit, and Acoustic Muse was the charity. In addition, wine guy Luther Fedora of Vinifera Imports was there to select, pour, and talk about the six yes, six! different Italian wines served throughout the meal. An Italian wine specialist, Fedora seemed excited to have a chance to showcase his selections.
"There are not many Italians in Virginia, which is why there's so much bad Italian wine," he told Dish. Fedora served up a 1995 Chianti from Terrene Vineyards (to go along with Humphry's duck breast with sautéed oyster mushrooms and fresh roasted parsnips) that rocked our socks off, as well as a Brachetto semi-sparkling dessert wine that was almost better than the dessert itself.
For $75 a head, SupperClubbers got a six course meal, a generous offering of fine wines, a kind of mini food and wine seminar, plenty of time to chat with neighbors, a little live music, and the knowledge that they were contributing to a worthy cause.
"I want this thing to have a mind of its own," says Beckel. A graduate of the New England Culinary School in Vermont, which promotes a more hands-on method of instruction, Beckel saw the Supper Club as a way to share ideas. "It allows me to learn from other people," he says, "and more importantly, to play with food and have a good time."
Indeed, to be served by chefs, servers, and wine experts who are actually having a good time is what makes the Cville Supper Club unique. Instead, of cranking out 300 covers on a busy Saturday night, everyone had time to focus on the quality of one sitting.
Still, getting things right is a work in progress. "At the last Supper Cub they served a little too much wine," one Clubber told Dish. "Needless to say, it was hard to focus on the food."
Another attendee mentioned the portions had also been too large. According to Siver, maintaining that quality depends on getting the portions right, perfecting the timing, and limiting the event to no more than 50 people.
"I want this thing to be self-sufficient," says Beckel, "something that will just kind of happen by itself every month. This was by far the smoothest of our Supper Clubs. That's because everybody chipped in and did their part."
Cville Supper Club founders (from left) Adam Beckel, chef Chris Humphry, Jaclynn Dunkle, John Siver, and Luther Fedora


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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A woman working the evening shift at a Palm Coast gas station was found slain late Thursday night, and authorities continue to search for a gunman seen running from the store.
Deputies said a customer found the body of Zuheily Rosado on the floor behind the counter of the Mobil Gas Station on East State Route 100 at 10:21 p.m.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office said Rosado -- a 32-year-old mother of six -- died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Within three minutes of her body being found, rescue personnel and deputies were at the scene, setting up a perimeter and searching for the shooter. Flagler County K9 units and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office helicopter assisted in the search, but no one was in custody as of mid-afternoon Friday.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was assisting in processing the crime scene.
Deputies say the killer is seen on video entering the store. He was described as a light-skinned man, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing blue jean pants and a dark T-shirt.
The man is seen in the video pulling his shirt up over his face and is then seen fleeing the store moments later and heading west toward the entrance ramp to Interstate 95.
"It's a quiet area here, everybody knows everybody, so it makes you feel sort of unsafe," said Wanda Mason.
Police swarmed the Mobil gas station Friday night, handing out fliers with Rosado's picture on them.
"Trying to find out I guess who killed the woman," said customer, Ron Jurke. "A clerk here at the station, I understand they don't know the reason why, except it's unbelievable."
Rosado's family is also in disbelief. Zuheily was the mother of six children.
"I just want my mom back," Rosado's oldest daughter, Teysha Silva, told Channel 4's Hailey Winslow.
A former co-worker said Rosado (pictured, right) usually got off work around 11 p.m.
"(She's) very hard working, constantly here, looking for extra work, jobs, whatever," Ray Tange said. "Always taking care of her kids, pushing them for school and everything. She would have her daughters in there on the computer. Took care of her babies. Good mom."
Rizzi Ansari, manager of the gas station, said the robber didn't take anything and thinks someone had a vendetta against her. He said Rosado was sweet and never seemed to have problems with anyone.
"She meant a lot," Rizzi said. "(An) honest worker (is) hard to find, very hard to find."
The victim's daughter can't imagine who or why anyone would do this.
"You took our life away. You took the person who provided for us; you took her away," Silva said. "A mother's loss, you can't replace that, you can't replace that, at all."
"She was a good woman, she was a very good woman, had a good heart and beautiful children," said a friend of Rosado.
Detectives said surveillance video of the shooting was retrieved, but it won't be much help identifying the gunman because his face was covered.
"Facial recognition from the video would be near impossible," Cmdr. Jack Bisland. "The video may be released to you in the near future in hopes somebody maybe knows this person, may be able to identify any unique characteristics that are evident in the video."
A foundation, called the Zuheily Rosado Foundation has been set up Wells Fargo under account number 7537414661.
Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 386-313-4911 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 888-277-TIPS. Tipsters to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and could qualify for a reward of up to $1,000.


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That time again. We need hosts for our MWF open threads!
Who can sign up
Anyone who has "Authorship" on Hackerspace.
1. Open Thread Post Monday morning (~9am Eastern
2. Open Thread Post Wednesday morning (~9am Eastern)
3. Open Thread Post Friday morning - MOST IMPORTANT (~9am Eastern) (Will be reshared to Lifehacker by their staff around 11-noon)
Open Threads should have a picture (I suggest reddit.com/r/aww_gifs, but feel free to make it your own). They should have some exposition to get people talking about something or other. Friday open threads should have a little bit more explanation since it's going out to the greater audience. Please toss in a link or two back to Hackerspace.
If timing is an issue, you should use the scheduler tool in the "Compose" window. You can set the date, time, and time zone. You can see all scheduled/draft posts here.
Check out past examples, though I encourage you to try new things.
How To Sign Up
I'll post below with the weeks to sign up. First one to reply to each thread wins the opportunity to do the posts. I'll handle the rest of this week.
One week per person, please. Let's give everyone a chance to participate.
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U of I Researcher Says Infants Should Eat Salmon
Adults are advised to eat fish a couple of times a week, and University of Illinois professor Susan Brewer of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition says parents should start feeding salmon to their infant children. Brewer spoke with Illinois Public Media's Sean Powers about a new baby food she helped develop with salmon as the key ingredient.
(Photo by Sean Powers/WILL)